From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jan 21 06:12:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA26714 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 06:12:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from enterprise.cs.unm.edu (enterprise-atm.cs.unm.edu [198.83.90.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA26704 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 06:12:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cfaehl@cs.unm.edu) Received: from avarice.cs.unm.edu [198.59.151.252] by enterprise.cs.unm.edu with esmtp (Exim 1.80 #2) id 0xv0sq-00060P-00; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 07:12:00 -0700 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Tom cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Division between /usr/local and everything else In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jan 1998 18:22:01 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 07:10:21 -0700 From: Chris Faehl Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Chris Faehl wrote: > > > Hi, > > I hope this isn't a FAQ that I'm missing somewhere - but it > > would be very useful if *all* ports could be built into the /usr/local > > hierarchy. Some packages (like exim) build into their own directory > > (/usr/exim). > > No, Exim builds into /usr/local/*. I'm looking the Makefile right now. Ugh, my apologies. I'm getting our install of exim (which was not built with ports) confused with a ports install. > > > I would like to see some way of building EITHER in the default > > location OR into the /usr/local hierarchy. The way it is now makes it > ... > > Any port that doesn't build into /usr/local/ is broken. And yet, there are plenty, mostly X11 stuff. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Chris Faehl | Email: cfaehl@cs.unm.edu > > The University of New Mexico | URL: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~cfaehl > > Computer Science Dept., Rm. FEC 313 | Phone: 505/277-3526 > > Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA | FAX: 505/277-6927 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > > > Tom > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Faehl | Email: cfaehl@cs.unm.edu The University of New Mexico | URL: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~cfaehl Computer Science Dept., Rm. FEC 313 | Phone: 505/277-3526 Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA | FAX: 505/277-6927 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------